Lindsay Ellis is literally calling it quits because of that Raya tweet. She has over a million YouTube subscribers and about 9,000 Patrons and her career couldn't survive *one* problematic tweet. That's what operating in that toxic space is like.
I'd tell her this directly but she blocked me years ago for being critical of her role in doing this type of shit to other people so...
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Oh here's Lindsay scolding Tom Scott because a woman in one of his videos made "transphobic posts" years ago that she deleted and he didn't know about. But I guess a lot has happened in the world since *checks tweet date* Saturday.
She makes excellent videos, but you want to talk oblivious? Go watch her video about the Omageverse writer who threatened to sue her. It's amazing how someone can both participate in, and warn of the dangers of, the same types of behavior simultaneously.
Here it is. I don't remember if watching the previous Omegaverse video of hers is necessary for this but tl;dr one of the authors got mad and threatened to sue her and played victim.
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"Charlie Kirk is anti-trans, ergo he wants trans people dead, and therefore if someone kills him, that's just living by the sword and dying by the sword" is what the kids like to call "manufacturing consent." So no, you don't object to that code. You personify it.
That's not what he said. And also most modern conveniences also come at a cost of life. Motorized transport. Over-the-counter medication. Does that mean people who die from those things had it coming because they didn't want those things banned?
Also the idea that someone deserved to get murdered because he said one time that a constitutional right was important enough to not throw out due to certain loss of life is so fucking insane! What's the matter with you?
Over the years I've had several people tell me that they don't understand much about the Middle East, but that they are instinctively swayed towards Israel because of how intrinsically linked the Palestinian cause has always been with anti-Americanism.
Burning or removing the American flag as part of a protest meant to appeal to Americans to adopt your position makes no sense EVEN if you are also protesting American complicity. You're just copycatting foreign protests without realizing how self-defeating that is domestically.
If the true aim of your protest is to say "Americans of good conscience should stand with Palestine" then you should be waving American and Palestinian flags, but leftism now is basically one big blob of anti-western internationalism so that concept gives them the ick.
I want to see how long it'll take @paulkrugman, who is VERY concerned about antisemitism, to tweet ANYTHING about the current war or wave of psychotic Jew hatred abroad and at home. Almost three weeks and not a word.
To liberal/progressive Jews who currently feel isolated I say this: You have a choice. You can chose to step out of your comfort zone, break friendships, be vocally not ok with what you see, or you can keep living with this feeling you have now forever. There is no third option.
You're not going to "wait this out." In six months or a year when everyone has moved on to the election or whatever else will be happening - those people will still be there beside you and will still believe the things they said now. And the rest of us won't let anyone forget it.
Stupid typo aside, this is your Come to Moses moment. I have no desire to engage in I told you sos and what took you so longs, but telling your sob story to a reporter ain't gonna cut it no more. Show me what you intend to DO about it.
Homeschooling is legal (sometimes with a few restrictions) in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
It's also legal in some cases in Belarus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, and Serbia. It's illegal in far fewer countries including Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, and Sweden.
At least get your pompous Euro-patronizing facts straight.
Amazing job by ChatGPT here describing a fully imaginary play that never happened and then attempting to correct itself and still getting it wrong.
It did this another time but it was in Hebrew so screencaps will be useless. It provided info and links on a certain minor event in the past but none of the links were correct and I even checked archival copies of the paper it cited and found nothing. Totally made up info.
Actually incidents like this should make you less scared of AI, not more scared. This thing isn't "thinking." It translates your speech patterns into math, does a math operation, and spits out a result that translates back into speech patterns. It basically did the math wrong.